This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Brad Schulz (blog) and the topic is one that should attract a lot of submissions: Procedures and Functions. Last week, I talked about the case against...

This month's T-SQL Tuesday is a week early due to the upcoming PASS Summit. It is being hosted by Stuart Ainsworth (blog | @codegumbo) and the topic is a general one: JOINs. I had...

Yes, Adam is right: we've all written crap code (the topic of this month's T-SQL Tuesday Wednesday. Usually we have an excuse: tight deadline, short shelf life of the code, or didn't know any...

T-SQL Tuesday, the invention of Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic), is what he calls a recurring, revolving blog party. Each month, a new host picks a topic, invites bloggers of all levels to join in, and...

This week, T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Jes Borland (blog | twitter), and the theme is "Aggregate Functions." When people think of aggregates, they tend to think of MAX(), SUM() and COUNT(). And...

This month's installment of T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Pat Wright (blog | twitter). Pat says: "So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation! It can be Automation with T-SQL or...

This month, T-SQL Tuesday's topic is Resolutions. I already gave a rough sort of overview on my goals for 2011, but I thought I would be able to dig a little deeper with enough...

This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Steve Jones (@way0utwest) over at SQLServerCentral.  For some history on T-SQL Tuesday, see Adam Machanic's posts here and here.  The topic this time is summarized as:...

Let's face it, there is a wide variety of skill out there. If you spend any time monitoring Stack Overflow, MSDN forums, Ask SQL Server Central or twitter's #sqlhelp hash tag, you'll be very...

When I started my technical career, the only way to learn about programming was from books and magazines.  I remember writing my first HTML page and finding it quite similar to the Vic20 days,...